Thursday, September 17, 2015

Oracle SCM Functional Interview Questions & Answers - Order Management Module - Part V

Oracle SCM Functional Interview Questions & Answers - Order Management Module - Part V

Define Pick Release?
A Pick Release is to release eligible delivery lines for picking material to full a customer order. When pick release the order, system find eligible delivery lines to be released for picking based on release rules and create a pick slip report which then handed over to operator for picking

Define Picking rules?
Specify which material to be picked based on picking rules defined in oracle inventory. This is used to help system determines Pick from Sub inventory/Locator.

Define Release sequence Rules?
This specify the order in which eligible delivery lines are released on shop floor. This is based on the following:
Order number
Outstanding invoice value
Scheduled date
Departure date
Shipment priority

Methods of Pick Release?
Online Mode: 
It pick Release immediately without waiting for the order to process through the Concurrent manager. This option can be seen when releasing sales order from release sales order form. 
Concurrent: 
This enable to run pick release in background along with other request.
Standard Report Submission:
Calles as SRS. This program can be scheduled and it runs in the background several time in a day.
Shipping Transaction Window: 
In shipping transaction form using Action Button to pick release.

What are Trips?
A trip is an instance of a specific freight carrier departing from a particular location containing deliveries.

A trip is carrier specific and contains at least two stops such as a stop to pick up goods and another stop to drop off goods, and may include intermediate stops. Trips can be created automatically or manually.

Automatic:
If shipping process does not require advanced planning, then prefer to automatically create trips:
Auto-creating a trip for a delivery: You can find the delivery you want to ship, and auto-create a trip and related trip stops.
Auto-creating a trip for containers and lines: You can find the lines and containers you want to ship and auto-create a trip which creates a trip, related deliveries, and trip stops.

Manual
During transportation planning, you can manually create a trip and later assign delivery lines or find the delivery lines and create a trip. For example, for a regular trip scheduled to depart every Friday, you can manually set up a trip ahead of time and then assign delivery lines. When you manually create a trip, you can manually assign stops, deliveries, and delivery lines to that trip.

What is a Delivery?
A delivery consist of delivery lines that are scheduled to be shipped to customer ship to location. It can be manually or automatically created for a line and group of lines. A delivery can have delivery lines from multiple sales order. It can be controlled by Auto create Delivery in Shipping Parameters Pick Release tab and Delivery Grouping criteria in delivery tab.

What is Item Cross Reference?
Item cross reference is used to link our item with supplier or customer item. 

What is a Modifier and what are different types of Modifiers?
A modifier is used to adjust the price on sales order lines. It includes adjustments, benefits, Freight and special charges.
Examples: Discount List, Freight and Special Charges, Promotion surcharge.

What are Defaulting Rules?
Defaulting rules helps us to automatically default some information from various sources there by reducing the effort in entering some of the information in order management. For example when a Customer is entered on sales order Ship to, Bill To, Price list etc automatically defaults form customer level setting.
Navigation:
India Local Order Management > Oracle Order Management > Setup > Rules > Defaulting

Customer sites are controlled at what level?
Customer sites are controlled at operating unit level where as customer are at Business Group Level

What is ATP and why we use it?
ATP Stands for Available to Promise. It’s a business function which can be used to find out the available quantity when customer give a request.

ATP = On Hand + Supply - Demand
On hand: Nettable on Hand quantity
Supply: Planned Order, Scheduled Receipts, Discrete Jobs
Demand: Sales Orders, Discrete Jobs

What is an RMA?
RMA stands for Return Material Authorization. It is used to receive the material back from customer if there is any defect. Approvals for RMA can also be configured.

What is Over Picking?
Over picking is used to pick more than what is ordered and over pick tolerances can be defined at item level in order management tab or in profile option OM: Over Shipment Tolerance

How to Ship the sales orders in fastest way?
Check the Autodetail option in Pick Release.  Set the profile INV: Detail Serial Numbers to ‘Yes’. Inventory will then suggest serial numbers during the Detailing process.  Do not check the Pick Confirmation Required flag in the Organization Parameters form. There by avoiding picking confirmation step

Is it possible to update the Sales Order once it is Booked?
It depends on processing constraints set up in Order Management. Some of them are seeded and cannot be modified but some can be configured on our requirements.

Reference: Collected from various web sources

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